Japan men's national volleyball team

Infobox national volleyball team
name=Japan

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federation=Japan Volleyball Association
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confederation=AVC
manager=
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FIVB rank=11
rank date=2008-08-25
Olympic apps=8

The Japan men's national volleyball team is the volleyball national team of Japan. The Asian squad started to play an important role in international competitions in the 1960s, scoring a eighth place at their inaugural World Championship in Brazil in 1960. Japanese Volleyball was in ascendance at that time and the national team went on to place fifth at the next two World Championships in the Soviet Union (1962) and Czechoslovakia (1966).

Japan joined the world elite at the beginning of the next decade, winning the bronze twice at the World Championships in Bulgaria (1970) and Mexico (1974). The then mighty Japan also played a leading role at Olympic tournaments, reaching the podium three times in a row, winning the bronze medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the silver four years later in Mexico and finally triumphing in Munich (1972). The 1984 World Championship in Argentina also saw Japan ending up in fourth place. The country has been waiting for a big success since then.

Results

=World Cup=

*1965 — 4th place
*1969 — 2nd place
*1977 — 2nd place
*1981 — 6th place
*1985 — 6th place
*1989 — 6th place
*1991 — 4th place
*1995 — 5th place
*1999 — 10th place
*2003 — 9th place
*2007 — 9th place

=World League=

*1990 — 5th place
*1991 — 7th place
*1992 — 10th place
*1993 — 5th place
*1994 — 7th place
*1995 — 8th place
*1996 — 9th place
*1997 — 12th place
*1998 — did not compete
*1999 — did not compete
*2000 — did not compete
*2001 — 9th place
*2002 — 13th place
*2003 — 13th place
*2004 — 10th place
*2005 — 10th place
*2006 — 13th place
*2007 — 13th place
*2008 — 6th place

=World Grand Champions Cup=

*1993 — 4th place
*1997 — 5th place
*2001 — 5th place
*2005 — 4th place

=Asian Games=

*1958 — 1st place
*1962 — 1st place
*1966 — 1st place
*1970 — 1st place
*1974 — 1st place
*1978 — 2nd place
*1982 — 1st place
*1986 — 4th place
*1990 — 3rd place
*1994 — 1st place
*1998 — 4th place
*2002 — 3rd place
*2006 — 5th place

quads

*1998 World Championship — 16th place
*:Kentaro Asahi, Nobutaka Hirano, Yoichi Kato, Masayoshi Manabe, Katsuyuki Minami, Norihiko Miyazaki, Yuichi Nakagaichi, Takashi Narita, Koichi Nishimura, Masaji Ogino, Hideyuki Otake, and Minoru Takeuchi. Head Coach: Futoshi Teramawari.
*2002 World Championship — 9th place (tied)
*:Yuta Abe, Nobuyoshi Hosokawa, Nobuhiro Ito, Hiroyuki Kai, Yoichi Kato .
*2003 FIVB World Cup — 9th place
*:Yuta Abe, Nobuyoshi Hosokawa, Nobuhiro Ito, Atsushi Kobayashi, Yoichi Kato .
*2005 World Grand Champions Cup — 4th place
*:Hiroyuki Kai, Kazuma Kishimoto, Masaji Ogino .
*2006 FIVB World League — 13th place
*:Yuta Abe, Shinya Chiba, Yusuke Ishijima, Yu Koshikawa, Keisuke Kurihara, Akira Masuno, Yoshihiko Matsumoto, Ryuji Naohiro, Masaji Ogino, Kenji Onoue, Nobuharu Saito, Yoshifumi Suzuki, Yohei Takasugi, Osamu Tanabe, Kosuke Tomonaga, Katsutoshi Tsumagari, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Kota Yamamura. Head Coach: Tatsuya Ueta.

Current team

Team Manager: Hideo Hagiwara
Head coach: Tatsuya Ueta
Assistant Coach: Yoshito Kubo
Trainer: Hideyuki Otake

ee also

*Volleyball
*Japan women's national volleyball team